Games like Ruin Raiders
If Ruin Raiders is your kind of game, the closest matches are EcoGnomix, Monster Train and Rogue Waters — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Ruin Raiders: Ruin Raiders is a turn-based tactical roguelike where you command customizable squads on a one-way journey into the ruins of an ancient civilization. Master turn-based combat, craft new technologies, and dive into ever-changing ruins to unveil the past!
Players who liked Ruin Raiders also play
Steam players who put hours into Ruin Raiders also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
EcoGnomix
WHY THIS
Shares biome adaptation and a whimsical mood with Ruin Raiders.
Top pick for Ruin Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ruin Raiders.
Second-strongest match for Ruin Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ruin Raiders.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Rogue Waters
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ruin Raiders.
Third-strongest match for Ruin Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Ruin Raiders.
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
Rack and Slay
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ruin Raiders.
Ranked #4 for Ruin Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
The roguelike dungeon crawler where you're a billiard ball! Push monster balls into holes or traps in randomly generated levels. Stack up countless game-changing items to create broken builds. Find combos to create your own synergies and customize your playstyle. Rack and Slay!
Dungeon Rushers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ruin Raiders.
Ranked #5 for Ruin Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ruin Raiders.
Ranked #6 for Ruin Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Crowntakers
WHY THIS
Shares permanent upgrades and a challenging mood with Ruin Raiders.
Ranked #7 for Ruin Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.
Mech Armada
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ruin Raiders.
Ranked #8 for Ruin Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ruin Raiders at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Ruin Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ruin Raiders.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Ruin Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Ruin Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Ruin Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ruin Raiders.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Ruin Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ruin Raiders.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Ruin Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ruin Raiders.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Ruin Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruin Raiders.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Ruin Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ruin Raiders.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ruin Raiders.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ruin Raiders.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Ruin Raiders.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Other recommendable Steam games by OverPowered Team, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Block Factory
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a whimsical mood with Ruin Raiders.
Another title from OverPowered Team, the studio behind Ruin Raiders. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Godstrike
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ruin Raiders.
Another title from OverPowered Team, the studio behind Ruin Raiders. Shares Action and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Godstrike is a twin-stick shooter where time is your health and currency. Face off against ruthless bosses in tense, 1v1 showdowns as Talaal, the last Herald.
Sushi Cat - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ruin Raiders.
Another title from OverPowered Team, the studio behind Ruin Raiders. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Battle back waves of rogue sushi in this cute-but-chaotic roguelite tower defense! Build, upgrade, and reshape the battlefield each run.
Cozy Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Another title from OverPowered Team, the studio behind Ruin Raiders.
Cozy Sanctuary is a relaxing pet simulation game where you care for adorable animals living at the bottom of your screen. Grow their food, and keep them happy and fed to attract even more furry friends! They'll stay out of your way while you work or study, but don't forget to give them attention!
Sports Card Shop Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from OverPowered Team, the studio behind Ruin Raiders. Shares Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Open packs, search for rare cards, and build the best sports card shop. Hunt for holos, autos, and numbered variants to satisfy your collection obsession. Design custom cards and enjoy the thrill of pulling those creations from a fresh pack!
Monster Zoo Tycoon
WHY THIS
Another title from OverPowered Team, the studio behind Ruin Raiders. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Build and manage the ultimate monster zoo. From fascinating abominations to world-ending horrors, your zoo isn't just for show – it's the cover of a secret (not very smart) cult. Kidnap visitors, turn them into creatures, and keep everything under control in this darkly comedic tycoon game.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
EcoGnomix
WHY THIS
Shares biome adaptation and a whimsical mood with Ruin Raiders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Rack and Slay
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ruin Raiders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
The roguelike dungeon crawler where you're a billiard ball! Push monster balls into holes or traps in randomly generated levels. Stack up countless game-changing items to create broken builds. Find combos to create your own synergies and customize your playstyle. Rack and Slay!
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ruin Raiders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Mech Armada
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ruin Raiders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ruin Raiders.
Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.
Frequently asked about Ruin Raiders
- Does Ruin Raiders run on Steam Deck?
- Ruin Raiders is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Ruin Raiders cost?
- Ruin Raiders is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ruin Raiders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ruin Raiders are EcoGnomix, Monster Train, Rogue Waters.
- Who developed Ruin Raiders?
- Ruin Raiders was developed by OverPowered Team and published by indie.io.
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